I can’t post them until I’m in the suburbs, but I have them saved. Had an hour before therapy, so I decided to also test my new stationery and paperblock. Lovely. You will get a very anachronistic letter sometime soon-ish, so long as the postal system doesn’t go postal in the interim.
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No longer this kitty:
Soon this kitty:
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Adventuron Learning / Making it to the jam Update:
I’ve created the base of all puzzles planed in this experiment, including some sort of dialog with choices to talk to an NPC (which will end up being a mess for sure in the code).
I miss the use of adjectives in the prompts…
I’ve also tested a bit Paravaaria’s guide for sentence rewriting (because French) and realised I’m going to need to edit/test a lot…
I think it’s time for a break, and actually write more than 3 words for the prompts…
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I saw a bunny minding its own business when I got the library. It wasn’t the first time I saw one just roaming around, but it’s still wild to me to see a bunny outside like that in town…
Also just learned I can reorganise my Adventuron code to look more like passages 
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How do they communicate “Honey, you forgot to pick up some milk?”
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How do you say “I take great satisfaction in something bad happening to you” in English? With a lot of words. Or you could just borrow something from the Germans, who have all the best words.
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“The Nameless One, his memory faded. Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, her udders swollen.”
“Iago, the scenery chewing.”
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Jerry, does the cow sap ring a bell!?
Oh, shit!
Literal translation:
Jerry, does the bovine secretion strike the metal cup made for sounds?
Oh, defecate!
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But how do we differentiate that from “Since I forgot to milk the cow, she kicked over the lantern, burning down the city of Chicago”?
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“Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, her vengeance taken.”
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The Nameless One, his memory faded. Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, her udders swollen. Dresden, when the skies fell.
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Boom!
Congratulations. Have a trophy.
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I also think it’s okay if not every fictional society in sci-fi is strictly plausible. Sometimes writers comment on real phenomena by taking those phenomena and turning them up to 11 in a way that would be highly unlikely to actually happen, and it then acts on a quasi-allegorical level to highlight whatever facet of culture it is that the writer wants to highlight (in this case, the difficulties of cross-cultural communication because some aspects of communication rely heavily on shared cultural knowledge). Star Trek has done this kind of thing a lot; it can be pretty hit-or-miss, and some people just don’t enjoy that style (which is fine), but I do think the criticism of “it wouldn’t realistically happen that way” somewhat misses the point.
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My son just watched a DVD I brought home from the library for him (with me watching over his shoulder while I was busy around the house):
The Iron Giant.
He thought it was amazing. I cried a little at the end.
Talk about meaningful SF…
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Back on topic: yesterday we discovered that our kitten has made friends with a local cat (yes he’s fixed). It was adorable to watch them run together.
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Dunno if you’ve seen it, but there’s a bit about this movie in Ted Lasso that is just spot on (my experience encouraging others to watch it matches yours; my wife followed the classic trajectory from “uh, what are you making me watch” to “wow, this is great” to crying at the end, which of course I did too).
The fact that they have the Iron Giant like nuclear-blasting people in the background of Ready Player One is such a travesty.
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OMG I used to watch this movie on repeat when I was a kid. One of the best animated movie in my book!!!
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@rovarsson
Oh, God… “Superman…” and that’s when I pretend something is in my eye. 
I remember seeing The Iron Giant in the theatres and really appreciating the absence of a musical/soundtrack influence. I guess everything was Disney in my mind, back then.
Just watched The Secret of Kells with my niece and son the other day. Pure magic!
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I’ve started adding proper descriptors and commands (in French!) in my little Adventuron experiment game.
One of the Jam’s condition is to write a game whose word count is between 99 and 999 words. After finishing describing the bedroom its related actions, I was already at about a third of the limit 
and there are 6 rooms + a conversation with an NPC…
Soooo going for the silver medal rather than the gold 
I find the program still quite a bit frustrating (coming from Twine), but I think I’m getting the hang of it
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I forgot how much I love that movie!!! I’m really glad you both got to enjoy such a wonderful film!
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